Style Guide

CAS uses footnotes, not in-text citations or endnotes.

Footnotes should be formatted as: Author year, page numbers. EXAMPLE: Smith 2012, 32–39. Place the citation in a footnote, not in the body of the article. If no page number is cited, cite as: Smith 2012.

Please include a reference list at the end of your manuscript formatted in the following way:

Aeria, Andrew. 2005. “Sarawak: State Elections and Political Patronage.” In Elections and Democracy in Malaysia, edited by James Smith and R.K. Narayan, 118-152. Sanur: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press.

Khoo, Kay Jin. 2012. “Poverty and Inequality.” In Policy Regimes and the Political Economy of Poverty Reduction in Malaysia, edited by Khoo Khoo Boo Teik, 63-106. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

· All chapters of edited volumes should be individually listed with the complete details of the edited volume.

· We do not use “ibid” in the reference list – if more than one source from an individual author or authors, list each with the authors’ full names.

· Please use Times New Roman 12 font and MS Word for all submissions.

· We publish in American English. Please set your language to English [U.S.] before running Spell Check and Grammar Check in Word.

· Please remove tables, photos, and other graphic images from your text and upload each of these separately. Captions and credit information should be left in the manuscript with instructions regarding where each photo should ideally be placed.

In-text quotations: Quotations of forty or more words should be indented using Word’s indent tool.

Ellipse: No space before or after when the ellipsis replaces missing text in the middle of a sentence. (Thus, The ellipsis in this sentence...has no spaces before or after.) If the ellipsis appears at the end of a sentence, use a period/full stop followed by the ellipsis and a space. (Thus, because the ellipsis appears at the end of this sentence.... The next sentence follows a space.)

Ampersand (&): Do not use with author names (Smith & Brown); only use in organization names if this is the organization’s preference.